Leader-Post: Occupy Regina camp torn down by police

Glen Davies, City Manager for the City of Regina, speaks
to journalists about taking down Occupy Regina site on
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011.

Photograph by: Troy Fleece, Regina Leader-Post

All that remained of the Occupy Regina camp Wednesday was an iPod lying in the snow and circles of green grass showing where the tents once sat in snow-covered Victoria Park.

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Full quote from Glen Davies, city manager for the City of Regina, on why he believed no one was present when the Occupy Regina camp was torn down

"(It was) an indication, I think, that people have been co-operating in terms of slowing removing themselves from the site," said Davies.

"I said last Thursday that we would start off quietly and start using ticketing as a means to start moving folks out of the site. I didn’t indicate when, but I did indicate we’d explore other means. My concern was that the weather is closing in significantly," said Davies.

"The tents presented a potential health and safety issue for the occupants," he said. "My concern was in letting it go on at -20 degree temperatures, we were likely to see health and safety issues escalate."

“The cold was becoming obviously an issue for occupants in tents that are meant to be used in the summer weather,” said Davies. “It’s obvious people have been having open fires in the tents. The tents had cardboard floors. They were nylon tents.

"So the combination of cold weather, all of that and open flames was not something that we thought we should see go on.”